Featured Maps
Southern Pacific Lines follow the trails blazed by the pioneers...
1928
An uncommon and visually appealing map poster "done in the old style" with decorative galleons and sea monsters and an elaborate compass rose. Southern Pacific's Shasta Route, Overland Route, Golden State Route and Sunset Route are marked, &q...
Children's Map of London
1938, or after
‘Bright colours and pretty fancies’ Bullock’s iconic "Children’s Map of London" was first published in 1938, and the British Library records further editions in 1964 and 1969. All proceeds of the map were donated...
Carte des Lignes, French Line
1959
This fine map of the Atlantic Ocean, outlines the routes taken by the Compagnie Générale Transatlantique, French Line between Europe and the Americas. The company was founded in 1861, and began sailing from Le Havre to Mexico in 1862. From 1864 they ad...
Philips Radio: The World of Entertainment
c1947
After light bulbs, radios were one of Philips' most successful products of the first half of the twentieth century. Even before the advent of the home radio, Philips owned its own radio station, which went live on air on the 11th March, 1927. Broadca...
The San Diego Exposition / Panama-California Exposition
1912
Published also as a post card by Eno & Matteson of San Diego, in November of 1913. Townsend Brown’s view represents an early design for the Goodhue - Allen vision of the exposition after the resignation of the Olmsted first in mid-1911. In spite of intense...
London Underground Advertising Poster - "In the Heat of the Summer you will find me cool.."
1922
Set against a black background is a central pictorial map, similar in decorative style and comic content to Gill's original "Wonderground" map of 1914, which shows central London from Docklands & Whitechapel in the East to Barnes Br...
A Hysterical Map of the Grand Coulee
1935
Large dams, like the Grand Coulee, constituted an important part of President Franklin Delano Roosevelt's New Deal. These included the Bureau of Reclamation's Grand Coulee Dam in Washington State. A concrete gravity dam, Grand Coulee took eight ye...
The Panama Canal
1925
“Mr Owens was the first civilian artist to fly over the Canal Zone. This bird’s-eye view of the big canal, with its inserted sketches of the locks and interesting Canal Zone scenes, is the result” (legend on the map). “One of Owen’s ...
Geographiae opus novissima traductione a Grecorum archetypis castigatissime pressum
1513
This is one of the most important editions of Ptolemy's geography, containing many new regional maps: twenty new maps based on contemporary knowledge "unlike many of the alleged 'new' maps produced by earlier editors, [they] contained a ...
Authorized Map of the Second Byrd Expedition.
1924
“Past polar expeditions have been swallowed up by a silence which was never broken until they returned - if they did return. But on the Byrd Expedition there is being attempted the most notable feat in radio history - a two-way broadcast from an...
